Christina Aguilera - "Lotus" (2012)

[🇯🇲 lucy88 🇯🇲]

Released on November 9, 2012 by RCA Records. Producers included Alex da Kid, Max Martin, Lucas Secon, and Tracklacers. The album debuted at number seven on the US Billboard 200, with first-week sales of 73,408 units. As of August 2019, the album had sold over 303,000 copies in the United States, as reported by Nielsen SoundScan, and has been certified gold for 500,000 album-equivalent units.

I remember buying this album along with Rihanna's "Unapologetic" from Walmart. While I love the album's theme, I did not find Lotus to be nearly as interesting and thoughtfully provoking as Bionic's, artistically and aesthetically speaking. I thought she played it too safe with this music, in comparison with Stripped, Back To Basics, and Bionic. At that time, I just wanted to seek out darker and edgier themes like with "Born This Way" and "Rated R". Some of the songs on the album really did hit closer to my heart. I was going thru alot with people, school, and life, mentally and emotionally, during 2010-2013. The early 2010s, in general, was a very turbulent, extremely dark time for me where it felt like I had the biggest "L" on my forehead. Absolutely one of the worst times for me, so I had a deep connection with the lyrics on "Shut Up" and "Circles". My personal faves are also Blank Page, Sing For Me, Army of Me, Make The World Move, and Light Up The Sky. I haven't really seek out "Your Body", "Just A Fool", or the album itself since then, but looking back, it did served as a nice beacon of hope to my darkest moments in life.

"Your Body" #34 Hot 100, #20 Mainstream Top 40, #1 Dance Club Songs, #10 Digital Songs





"Just A Fool" #71 Hot 100, #21 A/C, #28 Adult Top 40

[divasummer]

I liked most of “Lotus”.
I’m an XTina fan so I usually find at least a few gems on each release.
This album had 5 pretty immediate favorites at the time.
“Your Body, Let There Be Love, Army Of Me, Just A Fool (which I thought was going to be a crossover hit) and Red Hot Kind Of Love”. That song probably irks some but I love it and have a few friends who like it as well.
I really like the ballad “Sing For Me”.
Her duet with Cee Lo wasn’t to bad either.
So I had no skips from 2-8.
The last part of the album besides for “Just A Fool” I hardly ever listened to.

[Joe1240]

While I do like "Lotus" more than "Bionic" and the album has a great lead single with "Your Body" and "Red Hot Kinda Love" is my favorite deep cut from this album. "Just A Fool" with Blake Shelton is nice. It is Christina's safest album but I do like it.